March 21, 2025 I was present and on the floor of the UN Headquarters in New York City for the launch of the first World Day for Glaciers. To say the day was a surreal experience is an understatement, and one that I am grateful and humbled to have known, as well as for the opportunities that are beginning to blossom from it. Simultaneously, in Paris at the UNESCO Headquarters, my piece Elegy For A Glacier was being shown at an exhibit for the celebration of the day, and to
I am excited to announce that Elegy For A Glacier has been selected for exhibition at the UNESCO Headquarters, from March 20-21, on the occasion of World Day for Glaciers and World Water Day 2025. This event is part of the UN Year of Glaciers’ Preservation 2025. I am truly honored to have Elegy as part of this important event as we strive to work towards better protecting our glaciers, cryosphere and the communities that surround and depend on our ice and snow.
I am excited to announce that our first funding has come in to produce shorts that will contribute to the full film through the Arts Connect Grant – facilitated through The Arts Center of the Capital Region – and supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, and New York State.
I am excited to announce that Elegy For A Glacier has been selected for screening at the USAPECS (Association of Polar Early Career Scientists) Polar Film Festival! Hosted by USAPECS in conjunction with APECS International’s Polar Week The Polar Film Festival (PFF) is a showcase of some of the best new films about the polar and alpine regions produced by researchers, community members, indigenous peoples, organizations, and institutions worldwide. .TO SEE THE FILMS CLICK HERE TO READ THE FILMMAKER BLOGS CLICK HERE
I am humbled to share that Elegy For A Glacier is making it’s film festival debut on Feb 12 at the International Festival of Winter Cinema in Edmonton, ON Canada. Elegy will be shown on the infamous snow screen amongst a cohort of amazing film makers and films throughout the week. It is an honor to be include amongst the selected films that were chosen this year. VIEW THE FULL PROGRAM HERE Stay tuned for future updates about additional screenings of Elegy For A Glacier as it has been submitted for consideration
I am excited to share that several pieces of mine have been included in the show Symbiocene Era: Artists Envision Environmental Symbiosisat Bushel Collective in Delhi, NY.
I am happy to share that Elegy For A Glacier was selected to be part of the exhibit Lands & Symbiotic Futures, through WEAD (Women Eco Artists Dialog)
Some sneak peeks of some new work with data, sound, code and art - looking forward to sharing more on these works soon and a particular project I am working on in this vein. Stay tuned! :) The sounds visualized here are a collection of field recordings from the West Fjords of Iceland.
Reflections on my time alone in the World’s oldest known forest upon the upcoming October exhibition Symbiocene Era: Artists Envision Environmental Symbiosis – Bushel Collective – Delphi, NY – where some images from this encounter will be up for view.
To say I was beyond excited to receive an acceptance letter from the Center For Humans and Nature for my submission of Our Shared Language is Silence - an essay and images dedicated to my deep connection with petric deep-time travelers, is an understatement.
I am excited to share that I have been selected as part of the 2025 cohort of poet/artists for the Writing The Land Project in collaboration with the Rensselaer Plateau Alliance. I will be visiting and collaborating with the David Hunt Preserve to craft 2-3 poems with and about the land
I am beyond humbled and excited to have been selected as part of the amazing cohort of women for FEMeeting 2024: Women in Art, Science and Technology conference in Windsor, Ontario from June 23-29th. Elegy For A Glacier was selected for the exhibition being held at the event at the IOTA Gallery, in addition to being selected as part of the closed session presentation for conference attendees.
My physical copy of The New Geologic Epoch from EcoArtSpace arrived and it is a stunning and inspiring publication.
I am very excited to announce the first public exhibition of my video/spoken work/sound project Elegy For A Glacier is currently on exhibit at the Trolley Barn Gallery in Poughkeepsie, NY through August 9.
Temperatures here the past few weeks have been dancing between 40-50°F, and the formations documented in this visual poem, were all gone within days as the water returned to it's liquid form. The last time I recall the lake freezing over completely for more than a few weeks was about 7 years ago.
I am excited to share that my Elegy For A Glacier video was kindly recognized and shared by Dr.Þorvarður Árnason and Rannsóknasetrið á Hornafirði (Research center of the University of Iceland in Hornafjörður). I have been fortunate to have connected with Dr. Árnason last year after taking my first trip to Iceland in September of 2022. Since that trip, my interest in the geology and glaciers of Iceland has become the forefront of my artistic interest and inspiration. Since connecting, we have spoken several times about collaboration on a sci/art
I am excited and honored to have had work selected for inclusion in the publication The New Geologic Epoch currently available for pre-order for print copies through EcoArtSpace.
Two pieces from my AntiGlacier series were selected to be exhibited in the show As Above So Below at FOMA in Santa Fe, NM. The show spanned from November 1-18, 2023. "The exhibition takes the phrase As Above, So Below, as its point of departure, a paraphrase of the second verse of the Emerald Tablet. This phrase was often used by occultists such as Madame Blavatsky, co-founder of the Theosophical Society, and included interpretations that suggested correspondences between the macrocosm and microcosm. These different planes of existence included illusions, some half-real, of minerals, plants,
Thankful to have had a piece from my Our Shared Language Is Silence series selected in this juried exhibition People and The Planet at the Touchstone Gallery in Washington, D.C. The gallery also provided a virtual walkthrough exhibition, and below are a few screenshots from that while the online gallery is still available. It can be viewed HERE until September 30, 2023.
Unfortunately, i did not have the opportunity to visit the Vermont Center for Photography during the duration of the juried exhibit The Art of Handmade, in which my work Deep Time a handmade Chromoskedasic sabattier photograph was part of. However, the executive director was kind enough to send images from opening night of the show, and upon receipt of my work and exhibition catalog, i will also post an image of my piece that was in this exhibition. thankful to have been included in this beautiful exhibition with many other
Working on a new series in collaboration with lithic, deep-time agents - spanning eons and eras. More to come as this series progresses, but very excited for the stories I hope to transmute through their traces
This past week I have been experimenting with creating and toning cyanotypes based on digital negatives of images that are part of my series Our Shared Language Is Silence.
Grateful to be part of the first annual Critical Forum Artists Alumni Show presented at the Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy, NY. This follows a year of review as part of the Critical Forum program for selected artists in the Capital District of New York State and is sponsored by NYS Council on The Arts. The Critical Forum is an immersive professional development opportunity for emerging and mid-career artists. Artists join in a critical and professional conversation with their peers and art administrators.and experience open dialogue
I had the pleasure and privilege to moderate one of the Virtual Studio Chats offered by the Hyde Colletction in Glens Falls NY as part of my time on the Innovators Council. The theme was "A Closer Look at Life" and featured two artists ; Cortney Gusick, Founder, Pāhiki Eco-Caskets and Yana Hammond, Medical Illustrator + Art Director, The ATLAS Program. This particular chat centered around how the arts and sciences help us better understand the world around us, featuring one artist whose award-winning work supports better health outcomes